St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-11

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men who did duty in JuFesburg. One
town and commenced behaving himself
in manner anything but peaceaA
BILE. A policeman named Road;
pouch approached him and wasi
about to place him in custody;
when the fellow turned on him and
sneeringly said: "You'n arrest me, will
you?" at the same time drawing his re-3
volver and firing. RoadpOuch fell to the
ground in such manner that he coufdi
not get his revolver, and lay there pros!
trate and helpless. Meanwhile the cow
ardly ruffian continued firing at the POI
liceman until he had put seven bullets
in his body. Fortunately none of them.
proved fatal, and Roadpouch jumped to
his feet, rushed after the fleeing cowboy;
and fired just one shot at him. The
ruffian fell dead. ROadpOuch was taken
to the hospital, and after two months of
careful nursing recovered. The history
of the town was fraught with such sin
cidents" as this, which were of almost
daily occurrence.
THE POLICE FORCE.
The police force of Julesburg, which
was under the direct supervision of the
police Judge, was, it is safe to say, one
of the best maintained in any Western
city. 1t was composed of twenty-five.
men, brave, trustworthy and true. They
were well paid, receiving S125 per
month. Their salaries, however, were
not at all out of proportion to the diff
Guilty and danger which attended the.
performance of their daily work. The
cost of maintaining the force was de-
frayed by the heavy fines imposed by
the police Judge on the prisoners who
were brought before him.
THE JAIL WAS SAFE.
The jail in which these prisoners were
kept was both secure an insecure. Any
prisoner could burrow his way out of it,
but to expose his person in such an at
tempt meant instant and certain death.
The jail was about thirty or forty feet
square, built of pine timbers driven
down into the sand, closely together,
and boarded ON top. In this the priso-
ners were kept. A man could easily dig
his way out under these boards, but
very few ever attempted it. AT each cor
ner of the Jail guard was placed, armed
with Winchester rifle. These men had
instructions to
SHOOT THE FIRST PRISONER
who pOked his head above the sand. One
or two men were killed in this way, and
the criminal population of Julesburg be-
came convinced that its jail was prac-
tically as secure as the bastile of
France or the tOmbS of New York city.
Most of the lawlessneSs with which
the police of Julesburg were called upon
to deal arose from quarrelS in the gam
bling halls. The
GAMING HELLS WERE ALLOWED To RUN
Scot free. Fortunes were lost nightly,
and men driven to desperation by their
losses committed the most horrible
crimes. One young man rented build
ing for $1,000 month, and people
thought he was crazy. But he was not.
He put ten faro tables in the establish
ment, and as he rented them for $40 each.
per night, his profits were over $4,000 a.
month.
But the glory of Julesburg was ephem--
eral. Its decay was almost as rapid as
its growth had been. When the Union
Pacific was built beyond that point, the
thousands of adventures buckled on
their revolvers and followed the road to
its next stopping place, Cheyenne. To
day there is scarcely soul left to tell
the tale of the dead city. Like Sodom
and Gomorrah, the biblical cities of old,
which the divine wrath wiped off the
face of the earth by shower of fire and
birthstone, Julesburg has verify persisted
in its WickedneSS.